strategic approaches to aws enterprise application migration

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Strategic Approaches to AWS Enterprise

Application Migration

George Watts

AWS Professional Services

Business Value of Information

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What does the ‘business value’ of migrating to the cloud actually mean?

Cost

Utility of information

Capability Management

Lift & Shift (Push)

Push existing

hardware to

AWS

• Migration

Automation

• Least

Transformation

Cost

• Quick cost

results

• Performance

Risk

• Limit Capability

& Management

Benefits

Build it and they will come (Pull)

Demand driven

migration by

user teams

• Lowest risk

• User Ownership

• Highest benefits

to apps able to

migrate

• Lower short term

cost payoff

• Risk of app silos

• Requires

Transformation

effort

2-Step (Push then Pull)

Push to a

holding zone,

Pull to future

state

• Gets business

and app buy-in

for Push

strategy

• Highest benefits

to most

applications

• Highest programme

cost

• Production support

only ready after

second step

Case Study : Qantas

Jessica Lin

Applications Centre of Excellence

Qantas

The Qantas Vision for

Application Management

Why did Qantas need to change?

Need to

Refresh

Need to

Innovate

Corporate

Culture

Consider the cost of not changing…

Need for Speed

Ability to

ReleaseAbility to Fail Ability to TestAbility to Scale

Transform the value of the information the business already has…

Need for Automation

Business

EnablementRisk Mitigation

Quality

Assurance

The enabler to turn business requirements into reality

Creating the migration strategy

Application

Centric Platform

Challenge

Assumptions

Demonstrate

Business Value

Creating a Migration Capability

People with the

right skills &

desire to

change

User workflows

built around

automation &

iteration

Cloud-friendly

programmatic

tooling

Key Partner : Sourced Group

Role evolution

over time

Need for a

Trusted Cloud

Advisor

Partner

Selection

The Qantas.com Migration Process

Moving

application

components

Managing the

Hybrid

Testing the

migration

The Results

90% reduction

in Infrastructure

Costs

100% Uptime

components

Complete Visibility

• Cost

• Application

Health

• Supplier

Activities

10/20

microservices

migrated